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Understanding Power and Politics. The Continuing Relevance of the Anthropology of Policy
No full textA conversation with Cris Shore and Susan Wright
From a political anthropology to an anthropology of policy: interview with Cris Shore
No full textCris Shore is one of the few anthropologists who have been studying “the makings of politics” and has put forward creative bridges connecting anthropology, political science, organisational studies and sociology. Shore is currently Chair of Anthropology and Head of Department at the University of Auckland (New Zealand), after lecturing at the Goldsmiths College, University of London (UK), between 1990 and 2003. Shore’s works include titles such as Anthropology of Policy: Critical Perspectives on Governance and Power (edited with Susan Wright, Routledge, 1997) and the recent Policy Worlds: Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power (edited with Susan Wright and Davide Pero, Berghahn, 2010), focusing on the cultural uses and meanings of politics in different social contexts, or Corruption: Anthropological Perspectives (edited with Dieter Haller, Pluto, 2005). But Europe’s inter-nationalist project has been a strong presence in Shore’s work since The Anthropology of Europe: Identities and Boundaries in Conflict was published in 1994 (edited with Victoria Goddard and Josep Llobera, Berg). Research on European integration policies, namely through the project “Constructing European Identity: EU Civil Servants and Cultural Policy”, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), led him to conduct fieldwork in different offices of the European Union’s institutions in Brussels from 1995 to 1997, giving rise to Building Europe: The Cultural Politics of European Integration (Routledge, 2000) and European Union and the Politics of Culture (Bruges Group, 2001). Further research interests include the debates about the meaning of ‘European government’, institutional reforms and UE’s role as a global actor. Along with Marilyn Strathern, Susan Wright and others, Cris Shore was one of the first researchers to approach a most original topic in anthropological studies in the 1990s: audit cultures. Guest editor of a special issue of Anthropology in Action on “Universities and the politics of accountability” (with Don Brenneis and Susan Wright, 2005), Shore has done research on university reforms and the economy of knowledge, using ethnographic methods to study the new labour and knowledge production regimes at universities, as well as the notions of person and subjectivity involved in them. General anthropological themes such as the discipline’s methodological and epistemological distinctive features were explored by Shore in works like Anthropology and Cultural Studies (edited with Stephen Nugent, Pluto, 1997) or The Future of Anthropology: Its Relevance to the Contemporary World (edited with Akbar Ahmed, Athlone Press, 1995). Cris Shore is currently engaged in an ethnographic study of universities in New Zealand. This is part of a wider international collaborative project between The University of Auckland, Aarhus University (Denmark), and Bristol University (UK) entitled “University Reform, Globalisation and Europeanization”, which is funded by an EU Marie-Curie IRSES grant and the New Zealand Ministry of Research Science and Technology
Gap prepulse inhibition and auditory brainstem-evoked potentials as objective measures for tinnitus in guinea pigs
No full textTinnitusorringingoftheearsisasubjectivephantomsensationnecessitatingbehavioralmodelsthatobjectivelydemonstratetheexistenceandqulityofthetinnitussensation.Thegapdetectiontestusestheacousticstartleresponseelicitedbyloudnoisepulsesanditsgatingorsuppressionbyprecedingsub-startlingprepulses.Gapsinnoisebandsserveasprepulses,assumingthatongoingtinnitusmasksthegapandresultsinimpairedgapdetection.Thistesthasshownitsreliabilityinrats,mice,andgerbils.Nodataexistsfortheguineapigsofar,althoughgapdetectionissimilaracrossmammalsandtheacousticstartleresponseisawell-establishedtoolinguineapigstudiesofpsychiatricdisordersandinpharmacologicalstudies.Hereweinvestigatedthestartlebehaviorandprepulseinhibition(PPI)oftheguineapigandshowedthatguineapigshaveareliablestartleresponsethatcanbesuppressedby15msgapsembeddedinnarrownoisebandsprecedigthestartlenoisepulse.Afterrecoveryofauditorybrainstemresponse(ABR)thresholdsfromaunilateralnoiseover-exposurecenteredat7kHz,guineapigsshoweddiminishedgap-inducedreductionofthestartleresponseinfrequencybandsbetween8and18kHz.Thissuggeststhedevelopmentoftinnitusinfrequencyregionsthatshowedatemporarythresholdshift(TTS)afternoiseover-exposure.Changesindischargerateandsynchrony,twoneuronalcorrelatesoftinnitus,shouldbereflectedinalteredABRwaveforms,whichwouldbeusefultoobjectivelydetecttinnitusanditslocalizationtoauditorybrainstemstructures.Therefore,weanalyzedlatenciesandamplitudesofthefirstfiveABRwavesatsuprathresholdsoundintensitiesandcorrelatedABRabnormalitieswiththeresulsofthebehavioraltinnitustesting.EarlyABRwaveamplitudesuptoN3wereincreasedforanimalswithtinnituspossiblystemmingfromhyperactivityandhypersynchronyunderlyingthetnnituspercept.Animalsthatdidnotdeveloptinnitusafternoiseexposureshowedtheoppositeeffect,adecreaseinwaveamplitudesforthelaterwavesP4–P5.Changesinlatencieswereonlyobservedintinnitusanimals,whichshowedincreasedlatencies.Thus,tinnitus-inducedchangesinthedischargeactivityoftheauditorynerveandcentralauditorynucleiarerepresentedintheABR
Interview with Marci Shore--April 10, 2015
No full textInterview Themes: How Shore came to be interested in history, people who influenced her, and the “susceptibility to being transported” (1:48); How Shore came to be aware that she was living history in Eastern Europe in the 1990s and the “un-grounded” and “up-in-the-air” feel of that time (8:08); What did people like Shore, who came of age intellectually in the 1990s, see or miss when compared with those who came before or those who came after? (11:58); How Shore approaches writing: principles and idols (on “keeping the language fresh” and “setting the scene” as opposed to “telling the reader what to think”) (16:58); On empathizing with the subjects of one’s work (25:20); On what holds Shore’s body of work together: dynamics of generation, friendship (32:40); Going to Eastern Europe to seek meaning: how does one arrive at the fundamental questions? (39:15); Is there an identifiable “Naimark school” of those who studied under Norman Naimark (45:35); What is at stake in considering oneself of an intellectual historian who focuses on a particular region? (51:05); Is Eastern Europe becoming “real” again through events in Ukraine and on the Maidan? On the “return of metaphysics” and knowing that—for better or worse—“anything is possible.” (57:25); Shore on the “miraculous transformation of subjectivity” in Ukraine (1:05:28); How should we be training the next generation of scholars in the field? (1:09:00)Interview with Marci Shore, Associate Professor of History at Yale University. The interview was conducted in Ithaca, NY on April 10, 2015. Marci Shore specializes in European—and especially East-Central European—cultural and intellectual history is the author of 2 books, including Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’sLife and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968 (Yale, 2006) and The Taste ofAshes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe (2013). She has also translated Michał Głowiński’s Holocaust memoir, The Black Seasons, from the Polish (that book was published in 2005). In addition, she has written a number of articles for both academic and more general readership audiences, including Kritika, Contemporary European History, and Modern European Intellectual History. She is currently at work on two book manuscripts, one is entitled “Phenomenological Encounters: Scenes from Central Europe,” and the other is an intellectual history of the recent revolution in Ukraine.1_xm4v17j
Zachary Shore - Blunder [interview]
No full textZachary Shore is Associate Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He previously served on the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State. He is the author of What Hitler Knew: The Battle for Information in Nazi Foreign Policy, and Breeding Bin Ladens: America, Islam, and the Future of Europe. His most recent book is Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions. In this interview with D.J. Grothe, Zachary Shore talks about decision making, both at the personal and international level, and shares reasons even smart people make bad decisions. He describes what the field of history uniquely reveals about the tools needed to avoid decision-making blunders. He details the many ways that people fall into "cognition traps," including "exposure anxiety," "causefusion," "flatview," and "static cling," drawing from examples from individuals, international politics and statecraft, and corporate America. He identifies the various rigid mindsets that cause the cognition traps. And he suggests solutions to avoid blunders in thinking, including increasing one's empathy, imagination, and flexibility
As Susan strayed the briny beach, along by Sligo shore
No full textAs Susan walked along the beach she thought of her lover Willie, a sailor boy. She saw a man's body float towards her, and pulled him from the sea. The torn body was Willie - she recognised her diamond ring on his finger. Willie's [sic] funeral was "a sad and mournful sight". Four sailors and four maids followed - both lovers were buried in one tomb.Greenleaf, 206; Peacock, III, 646; Leach, #21, 78; Laws, ABBBK1
Audit culture : How indicators and rankings are reshaping the world
No full textAll aspects of our work and private lives are increasingly measured and managed. But how has this ‘audit culture’ arisen and what kind of a world is it producing? Cris Shore and Susan Wright provide a timely account of the rise of the new industries of accounting, enumeration and ranking from an anthropological perspective. Audit Culture is the first book to systematically document and analyse these phenomena and their implications for democracy. The book explores how audit culture operates across a wide range of fields, including health, higher education, NGOs, finance, the automobile industry and the military. The authors build a powerful critique of contemporary public sector management in an age of neoliberal market-making, privatisation and outsourcing. They conclude by offering ideas about how to reverse its damaging effects on communities, and restore the democratic accountability that audit culture is systematically undermining.</p
Audit Culture: How Indicators and Rankings are Reshaping the World
No full textAll aspects of our work and private lives are increasingly measured and managed. But how has this 'audit culture' arisen and what kind of a world is it producing?
Cris Shore and Susan Wright provide a timely account of the rise of the new industries of accounting, enumeration and ranking from an anthropological perspective, drawing on political economy, ethnographic observation and genealogical excavation. Audit Culture is the first book to systematically document and analyse these phenomena and their implications for democracy.
The book explores how audit culture operates across a wide range of fields, including health, higher education, NGOs, finance, the automobile industry and the military. The authors build a powerful critique of contemporary public sector management in an age of neoliberal market-making, privatisation and outsourcing. They conclude by offering a raft of suggested actions to reverse its damaging effects on communities, reclaim professional autonomy, and restore the democratic accountability that audit culture is systematically undermining
Astrophysical Hydrodynamics: An Introduction
No full textThis latest edition of the proven and comprehensive treatment on the topic -- from the bestselling author of ""Tapestry of Modern Astrophysics"" -- has been updated and revised to reflect the newest research results. Suitable for AS0000 and AS0200 courses, as well as advanced astrophysics and astronomy lectures, this is an indispensable theoretical backup for studies on celestial body formation and astrophysics. Includes exercises with solutions
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